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Physicians do not routinely gives patients placebo (except in research), nor would it be ethical to do so routinely in clinical practice. The article you linke
by logjam 17y ago
Physicians do not routinely gives patients placebo (except in research), nor would it be ethical to do so routinely in clinical practice.
The article you linked really talks about parents who are trying to market "Obecalp". Neither I nor any physician I know has ever heard of it.
There is a significant "mind/body healing process", but neither homeopathy nor placebo is a legitimate or ethical part of healing.
- jibiki 17y ago> Physicians do not routinely gives patients placebo (except in research), nor would it be ethical to do so routinely in clinical practice. Wikipedia says otherwise (and here is its source): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12789709&dopt=Abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db... "The authors sent a questionnaire to 772 randomly selected Danish clinicians and asked them about their use of placebo interventions. Sixty-five percent responded. Among the general practitioners, 86% (95% confidence interval 81-91) reported to have used placebo interventions at least once, and 48% (41-55) to have used placebo interventions more than ten times, within the last year"
- Confusion 17y agoGiven the number of cases GP's handle, most people wouldn't call 10 times a year 'routinely'. They would call that 'rarely'.
- grandalf 17y agoSomeone else beat me to refuting your comment. The nytimes article was just chosen as a quick example. Use of Obecalp is taught in major medical schools and it is used routinely though not frequently by doctors. Think of it this way, any pharmaceutical treatment you have undergone was probably only 80-90% as effective as you think it was :)